Assaults Orange County

Dianna D'Aiello is on the phone. She sounds exhausted. She's been up since 6 o'clock Thursday morning. "I tossed and turned all night," she says. That was before she, her mother and an aunt drove together to the Orange County Superior Court building in Santa Ana, where D'Aiello took a seat in Department 40 and spoke of the man who raped her, beat her into a coma and killed her unborn daughter. Or of the men who did. "Why do you think Kevin wasn't there today?"

The echoes ring with a haunting similarity: A 21-year-old Cypress man with everything to live for who grew so troubled when he broke up with his girlfriend that he committed himself to a psychiatric hospital. A 33-year-old Anaheim man who could not cope when his girlfriend told him goodby. A 41-year-old Huntington Beach man, despondent over recent split with his girlfriend. In each case, love became an obsession. In each, that obsession turned violent.

On Main Street, everyone has a story about the skinheads. Shawna Sakal, whose family owns a surf shop, remembers the black store clerk harassed by young toughs. Curtis Maddox recalls the four meaty arms jerking out of a passing car in Hitler-style salutes. Lance Lee, a salesclerk at Beachcomber's Surf Shop, tells of the man who came in the other day to sell his surfboard. "It had swastikas all over it," Lee said. "We bought it, but we had to paint them over."

Owners of a Westminster Mall jewelry store were cleaning up shattered glass and taking stock of their losses Saturday after a brazen robbery attempt the previous night that left one man wounded and four suspects jailed. The victim, Parounak Karadolian, 34, of Fountain Valley, a co-owner of Dekara Designs, was treated at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center for a gunshot wound to the left arm and released late Friday, said Westminster Police Lt. Richard Main.

Three gang members convicted in the stabbing deaths of two rival gang members in a fight over ethnic pride have received long prison terms. Superior Court Judge Luis Cardenas on Thursday sentenced Armando Moreno Jr., 20, to 39 years to life; Poe Meki Taula, 22, to 41 years to life; and Arnold Mendez Jr., 21, to 43 years to life. The three men were convicted of killing Hector De La Torre, 24, of Santa Ana, and Oscar (Tiny) Jimenez, 18, of Garden Grove, on Jan.

Two suspects arrested in the brutal attack on two teenage girls and their boyfriends in a remote Orange County canyon said in jailhouse interviews Monday that the incident was unplanned and followed an evening of drinking, drugs and vandalism. Erick Oswaldo Dominguez and Cuahutemoc Torres, both 19, said through sobs that they regret the rapes of the girls and the beatings of their boyfriends in rugged Black Star Canyon.

Police on Tuesday identified the victims of two separate weekend slayings that occurred within a few hours of each other. The first victim, Jesus Cabrera, 45, of La Habra, was found lying at the corner of Florence Avenue and Florence Court about 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Paramedics took him to Friendly Hills Medical Center, where he died. Investigators said that Cabrera was dumped on the street with a gunshot wound in his torso and that he may have been robbed.

Three women believed to be involved in a gunfight that injured one of them were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder early Monday after they allegedly opened fire on a news photographer who followed their car from the scene. Arrested were Tho Minh Luu, 20, of Yorba Linda; Hong Thanh Le, 21, of Santa Ana; and Mindy Nguyen Dao, 23, of Canoga Park. Dao was taken to Western Medical Center in Anaheim, where she was being treated for a gunshot wound in the back.

Gunshot wounds mark Bill Carns' forehead and neck. His arm rests in a sling. His left leg is strapped in a brace. A bullet remains lodged in his skull. "At first," he says, "I would tell people I fell off a bicycle, because I didn't want to get into it. "But, now, I can tell people I was the final victim of this guy called the Night Stalker."

"The gun and the knife. . . them are the tools by which you live and die." --Jimmy Fratianno, at Michael Anthony Rizzitello's initiation as a "made guy" into La Costa Nostra, 1976. For reputed top racketeer Michael Anthony Rizzitello, jails and courtrooms have been familiar turf in his autumn years. He has been arrested nine times in the past 13 years and spent nearly half of that time behind bars.